Medieval representations of sodomy - Dr Robert Mills (UCL) While sodomy in Medieval Britain and Europe was seemingly regarded as unmentionable, artists developed strategies of depicting taboo practices. Dr Bob Mills (UCL History of Art) examines an era of art history that has hitherto been much neglected in studies of forbidden sexual practices and images of judgment and punishment.
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Imagining the Future City: London 2062 - editors' introduction Is London turning into a city where football clubs such as Arsenal and Chelsea run schools, Londoners commonly convert their roofs into "micro-farms" and people are subject to separate migration laws to the rest of the UK?
A new UCL book enables academics to imagine how current trends in energy use, transport, education, governance and health might have played out by 2062.
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Instead of putting the two left over biscuits back in the tin, you might instead decide to break them into halves and then give one of the resulting four halves to each person so that everyone receives a total of one and a half biscuits. In this case, the answer has to be expressed as a fraction or the equivalent decimal number:

6 ÷ 4 = 1½

6 ÷ 4 = 1.5

A fraction is really just another way of expressing a division because ½ means

A Conversation with Kevin Cullen and Shelley Murphy Boston Globe journalists Kevin Cullen and Shelley Murphy discuss their new book, Whitey Bulger: America's Most Wanted Gangster and the Manhunt That Brought Him to Justice, and what this history reveals about the changing nature of Boston and its politics. WBUR reporter David Boeri moderates.
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The Drop and Upward Throw of a Ball are Very Similar Previously we determined the motion graphs for dropping a ball from 2.0 meters and throwing a ball up to 2.0 meters and catching it again. In this video I show that the reverse of the drop coupled with the drop itself is the same thing as throwing the ball upward. Make sense? Okay, watch the video.

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0:13 Reviewing the previous graphs
0:25 The drop is the same as the 2nd half of the drop
0:48 Dropping the medicine ball in reverse

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A Tribute to the Dream [Full] A Tribute to the Dream," hon­ored Dr. King's legacy and com­mem­o­rated the 50th anniver­sary of the Civil Rights Act through a series of visual nar­ra­tives, musical per­for­mances, and candid dis­cus­sions. The event was part of "50 Years For­ward: The Journey Con­tinues," Northeastern's year­long com­mem­o­ra­tion of the people, events, and orga­ni­za­tions ded­i­cated to civil rights in America and around the world.Author(s): No creator set

The EU as presently constituted is itself a product of globalisation, and here the impact of globalisation has been heightened by the central institutions of the EU directly encouraging regionalism and cross-border cooperation between regions to further its own political and economic integration.

Regionalism has also been indirectly boosted by other EU policies, particularly the development of the Single European Market since the late 1980s

Are Good News Clubs Good For Our Children? Good News Clubs are infiltrating our public schools an turning them into tax-payer funded indoctrination centers.
Presentations by Rebecca Hale, Katherine Stewart, Richard Dawkins, Eric Cernyer and Sean Faircloth.
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The Smithsonian's History of America in 101 Objects: Author Richard Kurin with John Hollar [Recorded: November 18, 2013]
The Smithsonian Institution is America's largest, most important, and most beloved repository for the objects that define our common heritage. Now Under Secretary for Art, History, and Culture Richard Kurin, aided by a team of top Smithsonian curators and scholars, has assembled a literary exhibition of 101 objects from across the Smithsonian's museums that together offer a marvelous new perspective on the history of the United States.
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Technology Legend: Honoring Douglas Engelbart As a young Doug Engelbart could only imagine sixty years ago, much of the world's population does the bulk of its reading, writing, and research tasks online. We sit at interactive screens, just as he foresaw, and click on the hypertext links he developed, with the mouse he invented. We chat and send emails, as his Augmentation Research Center staff did in the 1960s. We meet in videoconferences, the technology they showed the world at a famous 1968 public demo. We do all of this over computer neAuthor(s): No creator set

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Artist Talk: We Are Animals of Language Artist Lesley Dill discusses the role of language in her work, which ranges from sculpture and photography to opera and large-scale community projects. She will screen a clip from 2008 opera Divide Light, present a multi-tiered project, Tongues on Fire: Visions & Ecstasy, in collaboration with the Emmanuel Baptist Church Spiritual Choir in Winston-Salem, NC, and will also show images from her fall 2010 installation Hell Hell Hell Heaven Heaven Heaven: Sister Gertrude Morgan and Revelation (New OAuthor(s): No creator set

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Protesters call for democratic China ahead of 25th Tiananmen Square anniversary More updates and breaking news: http://smarturl.it/BreakingNews
June 1 - Over a thousand protesters take to the streets of Hong Kong, calling for a democratic China ahead of the 25th anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown in Beijing. Vanessa Johnston reports.
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The Giants of Philosophy - Arthur Schopenhauer - 07/18 'Arthur Schopenhauer (22 February 1788 – 21 September 1860) was a German philosopher known for his atheistic pessimism and philosophical clarity' (Arthur Schopenhauer, Wikipedia, 2009). He was influenced by Plato and Kant, and he, in turn, inlfuenced Einstein, Freud, and Jung among others. Suitable for high school students. Video consists of one still image and narration.Author(s): No creator set

There was a profound restructuring of economic activity in ‘older’ industrialised countries in the last quarter of the twentieth century from manufacturing to service activities. There are several reasons for this restructuring. First, the long-established industrialised countries such as Germany, the USA, Japan and the UK have faced increasingly intense competition as more countries have industrialised. Second, productivity, or output per worker, has increased in manufacturing industries